Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eisenberg soon began working at the MIT Health Service, teaching psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and exploring the atmosphere of 1960s...
...Kevin is exactly like Hamlet," says acting coach Harold Guskin, his first drama teacher at Indiana University in the late 1960s and still a close friend. "Both as an actor and a person. He always makes the illogical choice. He loves doing exactly what you least expect him to do and making it work. Right from the very beginning, when he quit a good job on [the TV soap opera] Search for Tomorrow and didn't have a job for months, he has trusted his instincts. And for good reason...
...true to her master through the obscurity in which she first labored, through the acclaim that began in the 1960s, through the sometimes heated denunciation that ensued when she defended controversial church teachings on contraception. She was not some saintly relic but a willing servant of her God: "I am like a little pencil in [God's] hand. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has only to be allowed to be used...
...resistance--in America is the march. Haggard slaves marched north, using moonlight and north-facing moss to get to freedom. Years later, regiments of blacks again marched north, this time in the great migration, drawn by jobs and away from Jim Crow. In the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the most poignant images were of the march: from Selma to Montgomery, then to Washington and the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr. tell of a dream. New laws signaled the next campaign: blacks and whites heading toward an integrated, egalitarian society...
...minimize the sizable gaps that remain. Black progress has been neglected, they tell us, while poverty, unemployment, welfare dependency and crime have been exaggerated in order to feed "the mix of black anger and white shame and guilt that sustains the race-based social policies implemented since the late 1960s...